Introduction
NARRATIVE TEXT
Narrative text is a story with complication or problematic events and it tries to find the resolutions to solve the problems. An important part of narrative text is the narrative mode, the set of methods used to communicate the narrative through a process narration.
The Purpose of Narrative Text is to amuse or to entertain the reader with a story.
Generic Structures of Narrative Text
- Orientation
Sets the scene: where and when the story happened and introduces the participants of the story: who and what is involved in the story.
- Complication
Tells the beginning of the problems which leads to the crisis (climax) of the main participants.
- Resolution
The problem (the crisis) is resolved, either in a happy ending or in a sad (tragic) ending
- Re-orientation/Coda
This is a closing remark to the story and it is optional. It consists of a moral lesson, advice or teaching from the writer
Task
Answere the question
- find out example of narrative text?
- What is the purpose of the story?
- analysis the generic structur of the story?
- what is the main idea of the story?
- what is the text about?
Read the Narrative Text and Answere the Question
Story of Smart Monkey and Dull Crocodile
One day there was a monkey. He wanted to cross a river. There he saw a crocodile so he asked the crocodile to take him across the other side ofthe river. The crocodile agree and told the monkey to jumpon its back. Then the crocodile swam down the river with the monkey on his top.
Unluckily, the crocodile was very hungry, he stoped in the middle of the riverand said to the monkey, “my father is very sick. He has to eatthe heartof the monkey. So he will be healthy again”.
At the time, the monkey was in dangerous situation and he had to think hard. Then he had a good idea. He told the crocodileto swim back to the river bank. “ what’s for? Asked the crocodile.” Because I don’t bringmy heart” said the monkey.”I left it under a three, near some coconuts in the river bank”.
The crocodile agreed and turned around. He swam back to the bank of the river. As soon as they reached the river bank, the monkey jumped off the crocodile’s back. Then he climb up to the top af a tree.
“ where is your heart?” asked the crocodile.” You are foolish,” said the monkey to the crocodile.” Now I am free and I have my heart”.
Question :
- What is the kind of text?
- Who was the smartest in the story?
- What is the purpose of the story?
- What did crocodile want to be?
- What is the main idea of the last paragraf?
Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
Once upon a time, there lived a handsome boy in Baghdad. The name was Aladdin. He was a clever boy, but he did not like to work.
One day Aladin’s mother sent him to the market place to look for a job. In the market he met a magician. The magician asked him to work together with him. If Aladdin could do, he would get a lot of gold coins and jewellery. The magician asked Aladdin to go inside the cave and find a magical lamp there. He also gave a ring and said, “If you are in any trouble, rub this ring and a genie will come to your rescue!”
Aladdin went into the cave. Inside the cave, Aladdin was surprised by what he saw. Every corner was full of gold and treasures. A few minutes later, he found the lamp and quickly returned to the entrance of the cave. Aladdin called out, “Magician, I have found the lamp.” “Excellent,” answered the magician. “Quick, pass it to me!”
Aladdin did not trust the magician so he said, “Not so fast Magician. You must help me out of this cave first.”
The magician became very angry. When Aladdin was walking to the entrance, the magician pushed a huge rock over the entrance of the cave and left Aladdin and the lamp behind. Aladdin tried to move the rock all by himself, but it was too big and heavy, “Oh no! I am trapped in the cave!” he cried.
Suddenly, he remembered the magic ring. He rubbed it with the palm of his hand. To his surprise, a genie appeared before him and in a powerful voice said, “Master, I am the Genie of the ring. How can I help you?”
Aladdin was frightened, but he soon found the courage to ask, “Could you please send me back to my house?” In no time at all Aladdin was back home.
Aladdin took out the lamp. He wondered what would happen if he rubbed it. As Aladdin was rubbing it, all of a sudden another enormous genie stood before him. The genie of the lamp said, “Master, your wish is my command.” Aladdin was very excited and wished for an enormous palace and bags full of gold.
One day, a beautiful princess was passing by Aladdin’s palace. She stopped to talk to Aladdin and soon they became good friends. Before long, Aladdin and Jasmine fell in love each other. She married Aladdin and lived happily.
Question :
- What is the type of the text?
- What is the text about?
- What is the purpose of the text?
- What kind of generic structure will you find in the text ?
- What is the main idea of paragraph 2 ?
- What's in the magic lamp aladin ask?
- What is given by the magician in aladin?
- " He wondered what would happen if he rubbed it. "(paragraph 8). What does the underlined word refer to ?
- "The name was Aladdin. He was a clever boy, but he did not like to work". What is the similar meaning of the word "like"?
- Who favored aladin?
Fire Damaged Shopping Center YONKERS
Nov 12 th. A four alarm fire damaged 14 stores today in the Cross County Shopping Center, the largest shopping, the largest shopping center in Westchester County. Two fire investigators said the blaze apparently started in a pile of cardboard cartons at the rear of a shoe store and spread through a utilities duct above the 13 other stores. The fire started at 4.40 p.m. and was declared under control at 6.14 p.m. The center is on the Cross County Parkway at the Gov. Thomas E. Dewey Thruway.
Five fire-fighters were busy at the scene. Lieut. John Carey of the Yonkers Arson Squad said the cause of the fire was under investigation.
Question :
- The text mainly tells about
- The fire has lasted about
- How many investigators and fire fighters were involved in the scene?
- what did John Carey of Yonkers Arsonsaid?
- where located of fightened?
Process
Process student do narrative text
- Understand narrative text: Definition, Purpose, generic structure.
- Read and understand narrative text.
- Answering questions about the narrative of the text and provide a picture related to the story.
- The questions that have been provided.
- Working on individual tests
Evaluation
EVALUATION .... !!!!
Conclusion
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From this Webquest, we can learn:
Narrative text is one of genre of text which contains story (fiction/non fiction/tales/folktales/fables/myths/epic) from the story, we can learn many things. Like: Wisdom, Charity, Love, Kind, Honesty, etc.
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This WebQuest was actually made for teaching 10th grade of senior high students. By the end of the lesson, they are expected to be able to:
- Identified social function, generic structure and language features of a narrative text.
- Identified detail information, general overview, meaning of word, phrase and sentence of a narrative text.
- Identified characteristics of the characters of a narrative story.
- Identified moral value of narrative story.
- Working on their own narrative story.
You may use this WebQuest as your students' homework. Before asking your students to work on this WebQuest, make sure that you have given apperception about narrative text in your teaching class.
Hopefully, this will be very helpfull for you ^__^